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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 3983876" data-attributes="member: 149">Yes, this is exactly the point. Because of the PS3s Blu-Ray has a massive edge in players and irregardless of what the "attach" rate is, the volume of sales is much higher (on average 2 to 1) vs HD-DVD.While HD-DVDs are somewhat less expensive to make than Blu-Ray disks, the costs of mastering or creating the source materials are equal. In fact the same "master" is generally used for creating both the HD-DVD and Blu-Ray versions, when you have the same movie released in both formats. So it doesn't really matter how many disks an individual buys, when you are selling half the total numbers and thus spreading your fixed costs over half the number of disks. These attach rate figures are basically an attempt by the HD-DVD camp to slice up the data in a way that makes their situation look better.It's like anything else, it depends on the effort put into it. The original Blu-Ray release of the "Fifth Element" was only barely better than the previous DVD release. It was so bad that they actually gave free replacement disks to people, when they released a newer version where they remastered it properly. Just google blu-ray and fifth element picture quality to get some comparison shots. It's night and day.I'm assuming you have the older Blade Runner DVD release? From what I can tell from Amazon reviews, the 1997 DVD release had very poor picture quality, but I did not own that so I can't comment on it directly. For the current release, it was extensively remastered, cleaned up and prepared with the high def formats in mind (It came out just before christmas, IIRC) and offers basically every cut of the movie that's ever been released. Along with all the extras ever created. This release looks absolutely pristine on my setup. They even went back and reshot some sequences (such as the Snake Lady running through the glass panes) where the special effects weren't up to snuff, even back in 1982. I haven't sat through the entire movie yet, but what I did see was stunning. It seems unlikely that the picture quality would be as much worse on the DVD version of this release as what you are describing, but I can't rule it out. Eh. So it goes. I think everyone would be better off the sooner the format war ends.</blockquote>

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